There
are two types ofcharacters
who do not play
in the major portions of the
text. They
are "less developed"
in the text. Minor characters
those figures who fill out
the story but who do not figure
prominently in it. And there are incidental characters
in fiction as well. These characters are even less developed throughout
the story.

Example

In
the book Charlotte's Web, the rat Templeton, is a minor character. So are
many of the other farm animals. Billy Bibbit, Scanlon, and Harding are minor
characters in One Flew Over the Cuckcoo's Nest